DINING CAR TROUBLES.

NZ Truth, Issue 112, 10 August 1907, Page 4

DINING CAR TROUBLES.

. 4» The Super's System of Sacking. Things m the Manawatu Railway refreshment oar garden are not altogether lovely just at . present. The supervisor, who used to have some sort of a billet on the Tu-tanekai , is one of those peculiar kind of cusses who always rub men up the wrong way, and cause discord where there should be harmony. He -has a most unfoappy knack of always blaming the wrong man, and bumping the individual who shouldn't be bumped and hanging on to wasters like a hungry dog to ■ a bone. His latest idiosyncrasy is the bumping of chief waiter Edwards. Edwards has foeen on the oar for years, and everyone wbo has had themisfortune- to travel between Wellington and New Plymouth knows that the attention received m the diningcar is the one bright spot m that gloomy journey. EDWARDS 'WANTED DISCIPLINE m the car, and had occasion to forcibly remind one of the waiters that he intended to have it. Edwards Avas only doing what any other man would have done m his place, but the super thought otherwise and bumped him out with an exceedingly great bump, without any parley at all. Reports have frequently been made concerning little free fig-Ms between other waiters and the festive under cooks, but there has been no sacking. Perhaps the marvellous supervisor thinks it is the correct thing for an under waiter to tell the chief to go to' Kaiwarra, when he was told to desist from heaving a plate of fry and bacon at the cook, and the cook replies wit/h a weil-aimod plate or milk jug. Anyhow, if bo really wants to do the Department a good ; turn by sacking somebody, let him start on himself.